Date: 1661
"Such were Love's Ardors, he could scarce forbear / His fettering flesh, his free Soul's chaines, to tear."
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Date: 1723
"Thou [God] only can'st the wond'rous Links descry / That Minds unbody'd to a Body tye."
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Date: 1723
"Thou know'st the downy Chains that softly bind / Our slumb'ring Sense, when waiting Objects find / No Avenue left open to the Mind."
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Date: 1723
"Can Pains and Prisons Errour's Force controul, / And the chain'd Body loose the fetter'd Soul?"
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